April 17th, 2011

UKIP Take Cheer from Victory of True Finns

It is fair to say that UKIP are ecstatic that their Finnish sister party have surged in Finland. Their tough on immigration, tough on the EU policies have seen the 16-year-old party surge from 4.1% of the vote in the last parliamentary election to 19.4%, tonight, taking their parliamentary representation from 5 to 39 MPs. At pixel time they have out-polled the Social Democrats and overnight smashed the Finnish pro-EU consensus.

No wonder Nigel Farage is smiling…

UPDATE: With 99.5% of the votes counted the True Finns were the only party to gain seats, taking 19.1% of the vote, level with the Social Democrats and just 1.2% behind the conservative National Coalition Party. It is the equivalent of UKIP gaining 120 Westminster seats…


129 Comments

  1. 1
    Lord Bowden of Middlesex says:

    If only we were out the EU.

    • 11
      Up sh1t creek says:

      It’s worth repeating this video which Nigel Farage is in. Why are the LibLabCon not mentioning that from 1st May there is the possibility that large amount of Eastern Europeans will come to the UK to claim our benefits, which are more generous that in their countries?

    • 39
      AC1 says:

      +googleplex

    • 58
      Anonymous says:

      If we are out of EU, what happen’s to the wife who hold Germen passport? Is she an immigrant who is welcomed or not? If we are going to control immigration it should first apply to EU, at the moment UK has zero control over EU immigration.

      • 71

        What happens to British wives of US citizens? Or Gromboolians?

        Mankind managed to deal with international marriages for centuries before the eu and will doubtless manage to do so again. We certainly don’t need a massive, sclerotic, authoritarian bureaucracy with dreams of nationhood to deal with petty sh1t like that.

        • 87
          Tapestry says:

          I have been trying to get a visa for my girlfriend just to have a short trip to the UK for two years. She’s a Filipina, and the Visa situation in Manila is getting ugly. As to what goes on down this neck of the woods, Cameron et al don’t have a clue.

          • Do The Right Thing says:

            The good news is if you get married she will get a visa to settle here.

          • Tapestry says:

            do the right thing. a settlement visa stipulates you have to live in the uk for ten months a year for two years in a row. currently we are living in the philippines merely requesting a short visit to blighty, but the border agency don’t seem to be able to cope with something as simple as that.

          • Anonymous says:

            Her sort should not be allowed to come here. And neither should you.

      • 88
        Anonymous says:

        “what happen’s to the wife who hold Germen passport? Is she an immigrant”

        Yes.

        “who is welcomed or not?”

        How big are her tits?

    • 117
      Moriarty says:

      The aftermath of this is going to be very interesting…….

  2. 2
    Lord Bowden of Middlesex says:

    “There tough on immigration, tough ”

    Dont know if this the right use of the word “There” , I know , Me being a pedant .

    How many seats in thier parliament , How many chambers do they have and do they vote fptp or av?

  3. 4
    Lord Bowden of Middlesex says:

    “Their tough on ”

    I before E except after C?

    Thanks number 3 my grammer and spelling is utter shit, I am trying to improve, I damm wish i could have stayed at school :-(

    • 5
      wishing well says:

      So do we Billy, We wish you were still there in fact.

    • 21
      Form Tutor says:

      You cannot spell “grammar” either.

    • 43

      You’re NOT trying to improve, Billy. You told me so not long ago.

    • 48
      Comparethemeerkatsarse says:

      I before E except after C?

      I think you’ll find that “Science” disproves that!

      • 53
        Grammar School Boy says:

        Actually it does both.

      • 61
        Misterned says:

        The correct rule is I before E except after C when the sound is ‘EE’ hence receive and science.

        • 65

          Oh well, back to my fifties/sixties schooldays. The full rules used to be taught then. Now 90% of so-called English teachers do not know themselves. Here goes:

          For words with a (long) “e” sound:-

          “I” before “E” except after “C”

          with these exceptions:-

          weir, weird, seize, seizure, plebeian, seise, heinous, seignior, leitmotiv, sheik, stein, codeine, inveigle, caffeine, protein.

          Some others I found throughout my life where regional accents can approach an “E” sound:

          leish, lei, being, deify, deism, deist, deity, reive, reissue, seity, albeit, enceinte, forfeit, surfeit.

          • :) says:

            How about a spelling test for immigrants. If they can follow the above then their welcome

          • Hmmm. I was driving through Bosnia yesterday, south along the valley to Kiseljac on my way to Sarajevo. On my way, I heard the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer and could not resist the following thought:
            * It seems just as if I were back in England. *

          • Audemus Dicere says:

            I think you mean “then they’re welcome”.

            If we introduced spelling and grammar tests for the right to remain here, most of the native born population would have to leave.

          • We presume to say nothing of the sort. I say that having within the last few days driven through the area surrounding Knin, which proclaimed itself the Republic of Serbian Krajina, until dislodged by Operation Storm in 1995, for which the war crimes trial at ICTY, The Hague has just concluded. Clearly that option would not be available to the UK.

  4. 8
    paul says:

    The UK has to leave the EU as soon as possible !

  5. 9
    gildedtumbril says:

    UKIP(while they steal) is still a cast iron, copper bottomed,teflon coated, 24 carat gold plated fraud. It is a bloody fake party, set up by the liblabcongreen bastards to soak up the silly bastards who do not have the balls or guts to vote for the only British party.
    Well, vote for them and drop me a postcard when you wind up under a muslim carpark.
    Some people are not too awfully smart, they vote ukip.

    • 10
      Lord Bowden of Middlesex says:

      Are you suggesting voting for the far left B8P party?

      • 18
        Your government hates you says:

        Think what your enemy would least like.

        • 27
          vlad the impaler says:

          That does leave a lot to the imagination TBH.

          • Bartholomew - George Osborne's teddy says:

            My man suspects that being caught in a locked room with Dick Sniffin, leader of the Buggers, Nutters and Perverts would probably be high up the list.

    • 31
      Righty Right Wing (Mrs) says:

      And another sweaty Tory troll shits himself because he knows he is supporting a fake Conservative Party with a Heathite clone at its helm.

      UKIP are going to destroy rusty Dave & Blue Labour even if it means getting Unite into Number 10.

      You duplicitous bastards will reap what you have sown.

      Enjoy – & Blue Labour out – at any cost.

    • 35
      tell it like it really is says:

      I see that in Tower Hamlets women are being told that if they don’t cover their hair and preferably wear a veil then death threats are being issued, along with posters advising gays will be killed. Well well, fancy that………..and what is “our Dave” doing about this?………………absolutely nothing.

      • 38
        Boudicca says:

        Nothing. You call making a pre-election speech saying that immigration has been marvellous for the UK, but a few too many were let in all at once, is ‘nothing.’

        He did mention that a few recent arrivals have shown a remarkable lack of desire to adapt to ‘British ways’ – preferring instead to dress their women in black tents, kill them if they don’t behave, and spend their spare time practising their chemistry skills. Apparently they all need to do is pop down the pub so we can have a chat and get to know each other ………..

      • 89
        Anonymous says:

        He is doing everything he can to ensure Turkey becomes a member of the EU so 80 million Turks can come here to ‘enrich’ us even more than all the other immigrants already have.

        • 102
          Mass immigration suits both left and right says:

          Plus Dave’s involved in getting Indian IT workers into the UK via the back door, so employers in the IT industry can drive down wages.

          Hey, I thought employers were meant to ‘value’ skills?

          • Anonymous says:

            Yes, another policy inherited from nulab. The liblabcons are all the same. Lying thieving treasonous cυnts.

    • 49
      Nick says:

      Hello Dave!

  6. 12
    Boudicca says:

    Fantastic result. From today’s Telegraph “Unlike other Eurozone states, Finland puts requests for bail-out funds to a majority vote in parliament and risks defeat at the hands of an opposition coalition of the True Finns and Social Democrats. Timo Soini, the leader of the True Finns, has pledged to work to block the Portuguese bail-out. “The party is over,” he said. “Why should Finland bail anyone out? We won’t hand over more Finnish money to be burned in the fire.”

    Roll on 2014.

    • 22
      Observer says:

      Dave, please note.

    • 33
      Strange alliance says:

      so they’re in coalition with Social Democrats? In Finnish political terms, does that mean that they are in bed with the Finnish socialists? If so, that certainly back up the sneaky suspition that I have had about UKIP for a long time.

  7. 13
    Dick the Prick says:

    Fucking excellent. Bravo! What’s this about Berlusconni giving Libyans ‘temporary residence visas’? – Sounds like an election prop to me; you think it’s bad, why donna you wait tiilla next year? Taking on the judiciary is always good fun – wankers.

    • 50
      Bartholomew - George Osborne's teddy says:

      To be fair to Berlusconi he has set tight criteria for Libyans to get visas. They have to be under 18, female and cheap (apparently his legal bills are even bigger than Piggy Pickles ego).

  8. 15
    Fabians are Evil says:

    What a warm glow one gets from this bit of common sense!

    What we now need is an uprising, by way of the ballot box, leading on to a bloody great nail in the lid of the EU’s coffin. That stinking bunch of festering EU socialists need bringing to heel.

  9. 16
    Anonymous says:

    But True Finns are socialists party !

  10. 17
    Lord Bowden of Middlesex says:

    Ok , Guido and co, Who is the nasty party?

    I went for a butchers at the Guardian and thought i would come across a well mannered debate ( well those lefties know better and all that) and i came across this piece and thought , That cant be lefties writing the comments.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/17/cameron-enigma-conservative-policy-av

  11. 19
    Psychic Sally on the Road says:

    simple is as simple be

  12. 20
    Down with Brown! says:

    No suprise. The Finnish pro-EU establishment really hate the nation state. The young European movement is dominated by them. A back-lash was going to happen sooner or later.

    • 116
      Sicko says:

      Little wonder there was such an unseemly dash to click the Lisbon mechanisms into place, even as popular resentment was opting against it.

  13. 23
    Down with Brown! says:

    The well-connected power elites everywhere need to watch out. Citizens of nations around the world are on to you!

  14. 25
    Larry The Cat says:

    I’m voting UKITT.

    • 98
      Jabba the Cat says:

      Very sensible.

    • 124
      The Golem says:

      So long as the Party repeals the European Communities Act and the Single European Act, they’ll get my vote too. Always had a weakness for felines.

  15. 28
    Must get a pseudonym one day says:

    Just imagine, for a moment, the daily delights of having the brilliantly entertaining Nigel Farage as the UK Prime Minister………..

    Of course, within a month, he’d be wiped out by the combined forces of the EUSSR, Mossad and the Commonwealth Heads of State, but it would have been one helluva good month.

  16. 29
    mongoose says:

    Timo Soini is a Millwall supporter!
    All together now, “No one likes us, we don’t care”.

  17. 36
    Anonymous says:

    Strange how a mountebank like Farage can’t cut the mustard isn’t it. Now, why could that be?

  18. 41
    The Soul Gordon says:

    Sheer..it! Damn biggit ho’!

  19. 44
    Hannibal Barking says:

    I now have a temporary residence permit from the Italian government. UK I am on my way.I hear the benefits are really good in your country.

  20. 46
    Flashman says:

    Fear not good people of Springfield!

    Diamond Joe Quimby and Blue Labour will be focus grouping the problem and the proposed solutions:

    1. Britain’s Got Talent! broadcast five evenings a week.

    2. Three new 24/7 Fut’baal Channels.

    3. Willie ‘n Kate Lager and Vindaloo Combo discount vouchers.

  21. 51
    Strange alliance says:

    Tru Finns have left-wing economic policies, which is why they don’t mind sideing with the Finnish socialists.
    How f vcking dare UKIP supporter bitch about the Tories going into colalition with the Limp Dums if UKIP are in cahoots with a old Labour style Eurosceptic party in Brussels!

    F vck Farrage and the rest of those idiots. It fits with what I have long thought of UKIP and their supporters. They are an anti-Tory party supported by Eurosceptic statists who don’t like to admit that they actually like a lot of old socialist policy.

    • 56
      Boudicca says:

      Temper temper.

      The unifying issue is opposition to the EU. Then we can both run our own countries the way we like.

    • 77
      Sod the Liblabcon says:

      They are an anti-Tory party…

      Thank God for that. The UKIP are sounding better all the time.

      • 91
        Strange alliance says:

        UKIP w @nkers, like yourself, make out that UKIP exist because the Tory Party isn’t right-wing enough when in fact, it appears that you would prefer an Old Labour style government instead. And you lot accuse Cameron of lieing! so please f vck and join your hero Michael Foot!

        • 106
          Sod the Liblabcon says:

          Ya, cos if you aint Tory, you is Labour and enemy of the country, innit.

          Your demented rants are a great example of the moronic party tribalism that pollutes Britain.

          The three state parties are a curse on this country, and the sooner they are destroyed the better for the rest of us.

    • 84
      Sandra in Accounts says:

      A bit sweaty & ranty are we?

      Blue Labour under rusty Dave are spending more than McMental – growing the state – & you call UKIP?

      Desperate.

  22. 57
    Sequelitis says:

    Fast and Furious 6 will be about the speed with which Gordon Brown flung Nokias when he was in a rage.

  23. 63
    Jimmy says:

    “It is fair to say that UKIP are ecstatic that their Finnish sister party have surged in Finland.”

    UKIP want to increase public spending and leave NATO?

    You quite sure about this?

    • 72
      Anonymous says:

      Churchill was Stalin’s ally.

    • 76
      Bye bye Nato says:

      Nato should have folded after the Warsaw Pack went. It has been more of a menace since the end of the cold war, then of any real use, especially when knobheads like Blair and Clinton use it to bomb ‘diversity’ into Serbia.

    • 79
      Call me Infidel says:

      NATO was set up to defend Western Europe from the Soviets. That day has gone. It was not set up to act as the World’s policeman and carry out bombing raids on undesirables like Gaddafi. So if we were to leave what would be the problem? You must try harder Jimmy.

      • 118
        Sicko says:

        It’s an untouchable totem of Internationalism, set in the outer suburban flatlands of Brussels. The very idea of unpicking this close historical alliance is considered madness; it shares with the EU the distinction of pointing to itself as the only reason there hasn’t been conflict within western Europe for two generations.

        Robert Oppenheimer would have disagreed with them both.

        • 126
          A ? says:

          Good lord Guido, even French foreign intelligent using your Blog.

          NATO gone the EU marches on.

          Well done !

  24. 69
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    …Progressive taxation and the welfare state
    State support for rural regions
    Increased state investment in infrastructure and industry…

    Sounds like just the party for the pretend libertarians who post here.

  25. 75
    The mad scramble for multiculturalism says:

    The fact that even somewhere like Finland needs an anti-immigration party just shows how far the rot of multiculturalism has spread in Europe.

    Since they never had any overseas empire, and have pretty much kept themselves to themselves over the years, I wonder what excuses their political, cultural and business elites are using to con the average Finn that Finland needs mass immigration?

    They can’t use the guilt weapon of ‘empire’. Perhaps the Finns are lazy, and the business classes need to bring in people to do the jobs the lazy Finns won’t do. Yes, that must be it!

    • 78
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      Stay in your bunker with your war DVD collection Mr Mad and that nasty old world can just go away.

      • 95
        The mad scramble for multiculturalism says:

        And stay in your ivory tower wearing your rose tinted glasses.

    • 83
      Call me Infidel says:

      You would be surprised, dare I say shocked at the numbers of Somalis, Sri Lankans, Iraqi’s etc. that now hold Norwegian, Danish, Swedish etc. passports and have of course full access to Britain’s benefit system.

      None of these countries have any involvement in building empires in these turd world shitholes, but the European court has determined that sending bogus deadbeat asylum seekers back where they belong is unacceptable. So the easiest solution is to give them a passport and hope they bugger off to greener pastures.

      • 103
        A hostage to vested interests says:

        When socialist and capitalist interests coincide, you have bad stuff like mass immigration, the assault on national sovereignty, and the global warming fraud happening.

  26. 80
    from Spain says:

    Hola 5 million unemployed on the way .were are fucked the EU knows it the goverment know t and the people know it bring back the peseta
    My Spanish mechanic told me costs a fortune to employ someone here i give them fuck all the socialist bastards just want o spend my money.

  27. 81
    Gary says:

    Why is the leader of the True Finns party a Millwall fan? Is it because his policies chime with those that inhabitat the New Den or is there another reason? I think we should be told.

    • 94
      Sod the Liblabcon says:

      Yeh, cos not wanting your country turned into a Balkanised shithole is so waycist!

      Perhaps the leader of the True Finns needs to vist Britain to see what a shiny success multiculturalism is. On second thoughts, better not.

  28. 82
    Dave Griffiths says:

    In this country they would never have won so many seats because our first past the post system would have made most of those votes wasted and people would never have risked voting for them.

    But Finland of course has proportional representation.

  29. 86
    Bill says:

    Crude calculation Guido.

    19.1% = 120 seats under a system of proportional representation as they have in Finland.

    22.1% of 2010 General Election result = 62 seats to Lib Dems, and a chunk of that was built on targeted campaigning by them.

    Yes UKIP would get a good number of seats, but 120? Not likely. Not without throwing out FPTP and putting in PR.

  30. 92
    Strange alliance says:

    UKIP tossers, like yourself, make out that UKIP exist because the Tory Party isn’t right-wing enough when in fact, it appears that you would prefer an Old Labour style government instead. And you lot accuse Cameron of lying! so please piss off and join your hero Michael Foot!

  31. 96
    Barry says:

    So France, bastion of the EU, is stopping trains from Italy to prevent free movement of citizens. You could not make it up.

    • 101
      Desperate Dan says:

      …free movement of illegal immigrants bent on committing crimes and poncing off the French.

      • 107
        gildedtumbril says:

        Rubbish! Berlesconi explained to Sarcoma that these enriching alien invaders are keen to enter Britain, not to infest France. Immediately the stoppage of the trains was lifted.

      • 108
        Barry says:

        Free movement of migrants with legal temporary permits

        • 122
          Desperate Dan says:

          The mafia have got a nice sideline selling temporary permits so long as you don’t hang around afterwards.

  32. 99
    Desperate Dan says:

    Perhaps the leader of the True Finns isn’t as much of a turn off as the bumptious Nigel Farage.

  33. 110
    I don't need no doctor. says:

    Is that Tony McNulty with Nigel Farage? How on earth has McNulty got away with his expenses?

  34. 112
    I don't need no doctor. says:

    I saw one of Eagle twins on the BBC labour channel at the weekend. I see the twins still haven’t discovered the benefits of hair shampoo.

  35. 113
    I hate Blue Labour says:

    Be afraid Cameron.

    Keep ignoring the electorate’s wishes while you turn into Blue Labour, and you’ll find out how popular UKIP’s views are.

    Or you can keep brainlessly peddling the tired old message about UKIP being ‘far right’.

  36. 115
    Anonymous says:

    This Finnish guy bears more than a passing resemblance to Herman Goering. I think we should be told.

  37. 123

    Hopefully this will be enough to persuade the doubting UKIPers that they should embrace the Counterjihad movement that is flourishing around Europe and will continue to flourish for the simple reason that the Muslim demographic is expanding almost exponentially. If UKIP could put their politically correct inhibitions away, they could replace the Conservative Party within 10-15 years.



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